Advertisement pillar or column.



No. 673,272. Patented Apr. 30, I90].

H. KLEINSCHMIDT.

ADVERTISEMENT FILLAR 0R COLUMN.

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4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HANS KLEINSOHMIDT, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO RICHARD BGCKER, OF SAME PLACE.

ADVERTISEMENT PILLAR OR COLUMN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 67 3,272, dated April 30, 1901. Application filed February 18, 1901. Serial No. 47,835. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HANS KLEINSCHMIDT, a citizen of Hamburg, residing at Hamburg, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertisement Pillars or Columns, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in advertisement pillars or columns; and the object of my improvements is to enable the advertisements or the colors of such pillars to be changed by invisible means, giving a paradoxical appearance.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a pillar constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section on the line a b of Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the two figures.

V represents the front of the pillar. To the back of a suitable foundation F is secured a standard "T, which carries the cylinder J. Around this cylinder J passes a band M, which is continued through longitudinal slots .9 8 extending the entire length of the cyiinder J. In the interior of the cylinder J are arranged a number of rollers r r r r r r r", and around these rollers passes the band M, which is thus continuous. Near the edges of the band M are provided at equal distances apart a number of perforations for the purpose described below. At the lower end of the cylinder J turns a base B, connected by a shaft to, extending through the cylinder J to the crown A, which accordingly rotates with the base B. The base is rotated by clockwork arranged in the foundation F. On the base B and crown A are provided a number of teeth adapted to engage in the holes near the edges of the continuous band M, so that the band is moved over the cylinder J by the rotating base and crown. I may carry out this feature of my invention in any other suitable manner. For example, the band may be provided at uniform distances apart with a number of buttons and the base and crown with corresponding holes, or the base and crown may be provided with points and clamps to hold the band. Further, instead of providing both the base and crown with such means for moving the band either one or the other can be so provided.

It will be evident that because there is no visible displacement between the band M, the

base 13, and crown A it appears as if the pillar rotates as a whole, and when the pillar is placed in the middle of a shop-window, for example, so that the slots .9 s and the standard T are invisible, the continuous change of the advertisements and colors will give the whole a paradoxical appearance.

In the pillar shown in Fig. 2 the band M is two and one-half times as long as the circumference of the pillar, so that, as only threefourths of the circumference is visible at a time, the pillar when three colors are used on the band could be shown first as quite red, then as yellow, and then as green, which series would be repeated. The pillar or column may also be so constructed as to produce various light effects. For this purpose transparent advertisements and such like are used.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. A pillar for advertisements comprising in combination a cylinder provided with longitudinal slots, a continuous band passing around said cylinder and around rollers inside the same, a base and crown rotated together, but independent of said cylinder, and means to drive said band over the cylinder but with the base and crown, substantially as described.

2. A pillar for advertisements comprising in combination a cylinder provided with longitudinal slots, a continuous band passing around said cylinder and around rollers inside the same, a base and crown rotated together, but independent of said cylinder, and means for imparting the rotation of the base and crown to the said band, substantially as described.

3. A pillar for advertisements comprising in combination a cylinder provided with longitudinal slots, a continuous band adapted to enable light effects, passing around said cylinder and around rollers inside the same, a base and crown rotated together, but independent of said cylinder, and means to drive said band over the cylinder but with the base and crown, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

HANS KLEINSOHMIDT.

Witnesses:

LEO FULLER, E. H. L. MUMMENHOFF. 

